On Thursday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford testified before the Senate Armed Service Committee that the situation had reached a point where Google was refusing to work with the US military and aiding the Chinese armed forces:

“The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military,” Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

“We watch with great concern when industry partners work in China knowing that there is that indirect benefit. Frankly, ‘indirect’ may be not a full characterization of the way it really is, it is more of a direct benefit